Page 84 of Valor’s Flight (The New Protectorate #5)

Splintered Vigil: The New Protectorate Fracture: Book One

Finders keepers.

Sloane knows he shouldn’t watch her. A predator trained from childhood to do what no one else will, his specialties are murder, mayhem, and torture. He’s a danger to just about everyone, including the soft human woman he stalks day and night.

Losers get a bolt in the head.

Cecilia Warren is soft, sweet, and blessedly ignorant of the bloodshed he deals in — until the day she’s attacked. The plan is to save her, not keep her. But everything goes awry when he finally gets her in his claws. Instincts blur loyalty. Desire makes letting her go impossible.

If they want to take her, they’ll have to kill him first.

The mission objective shifts when he goes from protector to captor, secreting her away and going AWOL from the terrifying shadow unit known as Fracture.

They have orders to hunt him down and free Cecilia against her wishes.

Sloane won’t give her up and he won’t back down, even if that means destroying himself to protect the only good thing he’s ever known.